Nether garment.



No. 721,687. PATENTED MAR. 3,1903...

- J. PIRSGHING.

. NETHER GARMENT.

#IPLIOATION FILED MAY 31. 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH FIRSCHING, OF UTIOA, N. Y.

NE'TH ER iGARlVl ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 721,687, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed May 31, 1902. Serial No. 109,585. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH FIRSGHING, of Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nether Garments; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the ac companying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an undergarmentfor womeus wear which is advantageously made in the main out of tubular fabric without material loss or waste and which garment will hang or set properly and well on the person.

In the drawings, Figure 1 1 shows a plan view of a section of tubular fabric cut according to my plan in order to construct the garment therefrom. Fig. 2 shows a rear view of the completed garment. Fig. 3 shows a gore-piece employed in the construction, two

pieces like this being employed. Figs. 4 and- 5 show flaps also employed in the completed garment.

ures in a more particulardescrip'tion, the upper fold of the tubular fabric shown is provided with the straight central slit or cut 1 2, the endat 2 of this cut entering a transverse slit or cut 3 4:. The lower fold of the tubular fabric is provided with a shorter central lon-. gitudinal cut 5 6. The parts of the upper fold on either side are provided with the irregular cuts 7 8 9.. These cuts described divide the rear fold into what may be termed the body portion A, the extension portions B B, and the remaining strip portions 0 0, while the lower fold at the outer end forms the forward portion D of the leg. The extension portions B B are turned outwardly, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and the gore-pieces E are inserted and sewed along the outer edges to the edge of the extension portions B and along their inner edges to the outer edge of the parts 0. At the lower end of the garment the inner edges of the parts 0 are sewed to the inner end of-the part C, so that these flaps overlap or overlie each other, and the upper ends of the flaps F G are inserted in the cut 3 and 4 and sewed in.

The garment may be provided with trimming and straps in any style desired.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is V 1. A garment formed from tubular fabric having an enlarged'hip and leg portionformed by making from similarly-positioned points near either side of the rear fold, downwardlyconverging cuts continued longitudinally to the end, gores inserted andsecured insaid cuts forming in part the rear of the leg, and the front fold of the tubular fabric being also cut longitudinally at-the legs and secured to the back forming the legs, substantially as set forth.

2. A nether garment formed from tubular fabric having an enlarged hipand leg portion formed by cutting the rear fold from similarly-positioned points near each side of the 7 fold on downwardly-converging lines and Referring tothe reference letters and figthence longitudinally to the end, and gores inserted and secured-in said cuts, middle longitudinal slits-in both folds of the tubular fabric, the edgesof which are brought together and secured, forming the respective legs, substantially as set'forth.

3. A mother garment formed of tubular fabric having an enlarged hip and leg portion formed by cutting the rear fold from similarly-positioned points near each side of the fold on downwardly-converging lines and thence longitudinally downward to the lower end, and gores inserted and secured in said cuts, substantially as set forth.

4. A nether garment formed from tubular fabric having an enlarged hip and'leg portion formed by inserting gores in cuts extending from similarly-positioned points at each side of the rear fold in the rearfold on downwardly-converging lines extending thence longitudinally to the lower end of the fold,

legs formed by securing together the edges of middle longitudinal cuts in both folds of the ture, in presence of two .witnesses, this 27th lower end of the fabric, and overlapping flaps day of May, 1902. secured on the edges of the upper eontinuai 7 tion of the middle cut in the rear fold, and at JOSEPH 11 IRSGHING their upper ends secured in a. cut extending \Vitnesses: transversely, substantially as set forth. J. BENJ. BRADY,

In witness whereof I have affixed my signa- S. A. BROWN. 

